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Kathy Bates
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Bates feared Titanic would sink at box office -
3 April 2012
-Kathy Bates "lost faith" in James Cameron's epic Titanic during the lengthy movie shoot and worried the blockbuster would turn into a big-budget bomb.-The actress, who played socialite Margaret 'Molly' Brown in the 1997 hit, admits it was difficult to trust in direc
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Bates was advised to keep cancer a secret -
20 March 2012
-Veteran actress Kathy Bates was advised to keep the news of her cancer battle a secret when she was first diagnosed with the disease in order to secure insurance coverage for a new movie project.-The Misery star discovered she had ovarian cancer in 2003, but she dec
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Bates considers retirement -
8 February 2012
-Veteran actress Kathy Bates is eyeing retirement once her hit U.S. TV drama Harry's Law ends.-The Oscar winner has enjoyed a long film career with roles in Misery, Titanic and About Schmidt and she has also scooped up nine Emmy Award nominations.- And the 68 year o
Kathy Bates - what members say
review by Margee from MAIDSTONE
17 July 2004
review by from Manchester
Soggy mess 5 January 2005
review by A customer from Cheshire
Kathy Bates at her best 21 February 2005
Kathy Bates - filmography
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Midnight in Paris
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate: 
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A romantic comedy about a family travelling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
 
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The Blind Side - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron
Director: John Lee Hancock
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect. Based on Michael Lewis' book, "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game."
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from 8,976 members
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Valentine's Day
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Geo, Bradley Cooper
Director: Garry Marshall
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Seen through the eyes of a multigenerational cast of characters, "Valentine's Day" threads its way through a variety of relationships - from first dates to long time commitments, from young crushes to old flames, and from perpetual singles to unrequited loves. To tell the interconnecting stories, ..read more »
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from 29,073 members
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Valentine's Day - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Julia Roberts, Geo, Bradley Cooper
Director: Garry Marshall
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Veteran director Garry Marshall helms this ensemble comedy featuring multiple overlapping storylines set during a Valentine's Day in L.A. Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Shirley MacLaine, Ashton Kutcher, and Topher Grace topline the cast.
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from 5,140 members
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Cheri
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Frances Tomelty, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend
Director: Stephen Frears
Certificate: 
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A romantic drama set in 1920s Paris, where the son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
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from 2,904 members
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The Blind Side
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron
Director: John Lee Hancock
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect. Based on Michael Lewis' book, "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game."
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from 53,497 members
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Personal Effects
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates
Director: David Hollander
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Ashton Kutcher stars as a broken man who sets off on a vengeance-filled search for his sister's murderer, only to fall into the arms of a gorgeous older woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who may share the same torment in this romantic drama from Insight Studios. TV veteran David Hollander directs from his ..read more »
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from 1,332 member
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Revolutionary Road - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama--based on Richard ..read more »
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from 5,390 members
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
(2008)
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Kathy Bates, Tyler Perry
Director: Tyler Perry
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Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout many years. Suddenly, their lives become mired in turmoil as their adult children's extramarital affairs, unethical business practices and a ..read more »
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from 28 members
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Revolutionary Road
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia ..read more »
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from 49,860 members
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P.S., I Love You
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow
Director: Richard LaGravenese
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Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank) is beautiful, smart and married to the love of her life - a passionate, funny and impetuous Irishman named Gerry (Gerard Butler). So when Gerry's life is taken by an illness, it takes the life out of Holly. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer ..read more »
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from 64,376 members
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Fred Claus
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins
Director: David Dobkin
Certificate: 
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When wayward sibling Fred Claus (Vaughn) is bailed out of jail by his saintly brother Nick (Giamatti), he agrees to work at the North Pole for the pre-Christmas rush. But with efficiency expert Clyde (Spacey) plotting to shut down Santa Claus for good, now is a bad time for Fred's brand of chaos...
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from 9,386 members
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Fred Claus - Blu-ray
(2007)
Starring: Michael Higgins, Kevin Spacey, Trevor Peacock
Director: David Dobkin
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Sibling rivalry takes on a new dimension in director David Dobkin's (WEDDING CRASHERS, CLAY PIGEONS) third collaboration with actor Vince Vaughn, FRED CLAUS. Ever since his younger brother, Nicholas (Paul Giamatti), was born, it seems that nothing Fred Claus (Vince Vaughn) does is good enough. ..read more »
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from 1,180 member
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Christmas is Here Again
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Edward Asner, Kathy Bates, Jay Leno
Director: Robert Zappia
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
A young orphan and her loyal group of friends band together in order to prevent Christmas from being destroyed by a nefarious grinch named Krad in this holiday-themed animated adventure narrated by Jay Leno. Santa's toy bag has been stolen, and if it isn't recovered soon the world's children will ..read more »
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from 64 members
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Failure to Launch - HD
(2006)
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Alexi-Malle
Director: Tom Dey
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Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker, SEX AND THE CITY) has a highly unusual job in this at times cartoonish romantic comedy: she's an interventionist. What this means is that parents of young men who are still living at home well into adulthood can hire her to date their sons, which lends the often ..read more »
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from 127 members
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Charlotte's Web
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey
Director: Gary Winick
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Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
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from 20,541 members
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Failure to Launch
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker, Adam Alexi-Malle
Director: Tom Dey
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Paula (Sarah Jessica Parker) has a highly unusual job: she's an interventionist. Parents of young men who are still living at home well into adulthood can hire her to date their sons, which lends the often troubled men the fortitude to strike out on their own. Trip (Matthew McConaughey) seemingly ..read more »
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from 31,509 members
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Bonneville
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Joan Allen
Director: Christopher N. Rowley
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When Arvilla Holden promises her husband that she'll cremate him and scatter his ashes, she doesn't expect her promise to be called so soon. Neither does she expect a high-stakes fight with her step-daughter Francine, a Santa Barbara socialite determined to give him a proper burial. Convinced that ..read more »
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from 1,581 member
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Guilty Hearts
(2006)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Julie Delpy, Andrea Di Stefano
Director: George Augusto, Savina Dellicour
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"Guilty Hearts" follows the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying the burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.
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Relative Strangers
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Ron Livingston, Neve Campbell, Danny DeVito
Director: Greg Glienna
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Dr Richard Clayton (Ron Livingston) has it all: a loving fiance (Neve Campbell), two wonderful, supportive parents, a successful career as a psychiatrist and a self-help book on anger management climbing the best seller list. Everything in his life is right on course, including a wedding date only ..read more »
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from 3,159 members
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Warm Springs
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, David Paymer
Director: Joseph Sargent
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A dramatisation of Franklin D. Roosevelt's remarkable life, WARM SPRINGS stars British actor Kenneth Branagh as FDR. Joining Branagh in a glittering cast are SEX AND THE CITY star Cynthia Nixon as Elanor Roosevelt, Academy Award winner Kathy Bates, and MINORITY REPORT star Tim Blake Nelson. Having ..read more »
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from 527 members
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(2004)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kathy Bates, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Mary McGuckian
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In early 19th Century Peru an old Inca rope bridge collapses, plunging five travellers to their deaths in the Andean chasm below. Brother Juniper, who was within minutes of being on the bridge himself, becomes obsessed with discovering how five people of differing class and circumstances came to be ..read more »
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from 7 members
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My Sister's Keeper
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Elizabeth Perkins
Director: Ron Lagomarsino
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Adapted from the novel by Margaret Moorman and based on a true story this is the tale of Christine who has spent most of her life in various mental health institutions. When Christine's mother dies the responsibility for her care falls to her sister Judy.
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from 259 members
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About Schmidt
(2002)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Alexander Payne
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In Alexander Payne's ABOUT SCHMIDT, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) is retiring from a long, dedicated tenure at Woodmen of the World Insurance Company. Though he is proud of this achievement, he finds some difficulty adjusting to life without work; and to make matters worse, his loving wife Helen (..read more »
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from 23,175 members
Not currently released
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Unconditional Love
(2002)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Julie Andrews, Kathy Bates
Director: P.J. Hogan
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When Grace Beasley's (Kathy Bates) husband (Dan Aykroyd) leaves her, she sets off on an impulsive trip abroad to attend the funeral of her idol Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce). In the process, she gets caught up in a wild and extraordinary adventure with an ulikely companion who convinces her to start ..read more »
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from 2,447 members
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Love Liza
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Erika Alexander, Jimmy Raskin, JD Walsh
Director: Todd Louiso
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Wilson Joel's (Philip Seymour Hoffman) wife Liza has committed suicide, leaving behind a note that he can't bear to read. He tries to go about his usual routine, but when his co-worker start to worry about his erratic behaviour, they convince him to take a leave of absence to deal with his loss. ..read more »
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from 1,237 member
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Dragonfly
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin
Director: Tom Shadyac
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Lush green aerial photography of the Venezuelan jungle stands in stark contrast to the dark and depressing urbanity of American city life where Joe Darrow (Kevin Costner) works as a doctor in the emergency room of Chicago Memorial Hospital. His wife, Emily Darrow (Susanna Thompson), was last seen ..read more »
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from 3,268 members
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American Outlaws
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter
Director: Les Mayfield
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Director Les Mayfield (BLUE STREAK) attempts to revamp the Western genre with yet another telling of the Jesse James story. This time around, James (Colin Farrell), older brother Frank (Gabriel Macht), and companion Cole Younger (Scott Caan) have returned from the frontlines of the Civil War. Their ..read more »
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from 1,214 member
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Annie
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Alicia Morton, Audra McDonald
Director: Rob Marshall
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Two features. ANNIE, a re-make of the classic tale of the orphan Annie who has lived all her life in a home run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel woman. The billionaire, Oliver Warbucks, decides to look after an orphan for two weeks over Christmas, and guess who comes to stay... Plus OLIVER TWIST.
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from 1,867 member
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Primary Colors
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton
Director: Mike Nichols
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John Travolta leads an all-star cast (including Oscar winners Emma Thompson, Kathy Bates and Billy Bob Thornton) on a wild race to the presidency in this savagely funny comedy. Jack Stanton is a virtually unknown Southern governor on a quest for the White House with his strong, savvy and equally ..read more »
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from 2,162 members
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The Waterboy
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Larry Gilliard, Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates
Director: Frank Coraci
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Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), the much-abused waterboy of a successful college football team, gets fired but finds his true calling as a player for the neighboring down-and-out team. Unfortunately, his Momma doesn't approve of football (or as she calls it, foosball) and Bobby has to keep his ..read more »
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from 17,454 members
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Amy Foster
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen
Director: Beeban Kidron
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The intolerant inhabitants of a seaside town ostracize an introverted young woman, branded a simpleton because of her refusal to relate to uncaring townsfolk, and her lover, a shipwrecked, unkempt Ukrainian man, considered to be equally dim. When the two misfits marry and have a son, the ..read more »
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from 469 members
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Titanic
(1997)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane
Director: James Cameron
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TITANIC, James Cameron's blockbuster, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as young lovers aboard the ill-fated voyage. A mysterious nude sketch found in the wreckage of the Titanic leads to the tale of its subject, the now-elderly Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet). As her story begins, Rose is 17 ..read more »
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from 45,322 members
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Late Shift
(1996)
Starring: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck
Director: Betty Thomas
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A frenetic, true-life comedy charting the post-Carson late night TV wars between David Letterman and Jay Leno. Based on the book by Bill Carter. Kathy Bates won a Golden Globe for her supporting role as Helen Kushnick, Leno's controversially abrasive manager/executive producer.
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from 33 members
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Diabolique
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
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In this remake of the French classic, the wife of an abusive school headmaster joins forces with his mistress to do away with him. However, something goes wrong, and the two begin to get the feeling that their victim may not really be dead. When a private investigator becomes involved, the thread ..read more »
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from 873 members
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The War at Home
(1996)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Martin Sheen, Kimberly Williams
Director: Emilio Estevez
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Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving ..read more »
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Dolores Claiborne
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Strathairn
Director: Taylor Hackford
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Eighteen years ago, the abusive husband of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates) died under mysterious circumstances. His death was ruled an accident despite the suspicions of police detective John Mackey. Now the elderly woman she has nursed for many years has also died-with Dolores found standing over ..read more »
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from 2,821 members
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North
(1994)
Starring: Elijah Wood, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Director: Rob Reiner
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North (Elijah Wood) divorces his biological parents and sets out to scour the earth for the ideal set of replacements. To help him along the way, a confidante (Bruce Willis) advises and abets the search for North's elusive "perfect" adoptive parents.
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Prelude To A Kiss
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin, Sydney Walker
Director: Norman Rene
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Peter (Alec Baldwin) and Rita (Meg Ryan) follow their whirlwind courtship with a storybook wedding, though Rita has those nagging doubts every now and then. After the ceremony, a mysterious elderly man appears and asks to kiss the bride. It is this kiss that sends the two lovers on a magical ..read more »
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from 1,211 member
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Used People
(1992)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy
Director: Beeban Kidron
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At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley Maclean), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
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Shadows And Fog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and ..read more »
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from 1,989 member
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At Play In the Fields of the Lord
(1991)
Starring: Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn
Director: Hector Babenco
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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort ..read more »
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Misery
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen
Director: Rob Reiner
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Romance author Paul Sheldon (James Caan) longs to be rid of Misery, his plucky heroine of seven novels. She has delivered him fame and fortune and recognition beyond the average writer's dreams, but she is also interminably linked to him. Determined to escape an eternal role as pulp novelist, he ..read more »
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from 19,037 members
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White Palace
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Kathy Bates
Director: Luis Mandoki
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An advertising executive who has recently lost his wife falls in love with a woman fifteen years his senior and below his class. He has to choose between the woman he now loves and his family.
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...uns parellel with the current tribulations of the listener. As the listener is Kathy Bates you can be assured of a polished performance sprinked with candour and humour. ...
